Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
WHY WE'RE STUFFED WITH INFORMATION BUT STARVED FOR UNDERSTANDING
Three decades ago, Media Power predicted the coming of our 24/7 news culture and how it would make us suffer from 'deprivation by surfeit".
Selected by the Book of the Month Club And the Fortune Book Club
Robert Stein, an award-winning editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former chairman of the
American Society of Magazine Editors.
'His inquiry leads ultimately to moral concerns and. he asks the right questions in abundance."
-The New York Times Book Review
'Keen insights.a humanitarian critic."
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Public Opinion Quarterly 'You'll like it. It's salty." -Arnold Gingrich, Founding Editor, Esquire
'If freedom of the press ever disappears in America it will not be with a bang but a whimper. Well said."
-Columbia Journalism Review